RTX 2080 in 2024 - Can it Still Game at 1440p?

How does the RTX 2080 get on at 1080p and 1440p gaming? I've got some benchmarks to see how good the value of this Nvidia graphics card is!

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[cptwhite]

Bought a 2080 for my boy's first PC for Christmas, MSI Duke model, really nice, cost about £200 which I thought was great value.

[maxkrug]

Still enjoying my 2070 Super! Thank you nVidia for developing DLSS!

[ThePeca]

Just upgraded a few weeks ago from an Aorus 1080ti to a Strix 2080ti. I think the 1080ti is a very good card considering its age, but the 2080ti is lightyears ahead in performance. Sold the 1080ti for €200, abd bought the 2080ti for €250. Its probably the last GPU i'll ever need, as i'm not planning to go over 1080p resolution, and with supersampling (1440p) plus every setting on ultra/max, and with 8xAA everything looks top notch, and the performance is also way over my 60fps goal, mostly double or triple that. This card beats any current gen RTX 60series cards, and is about on par with the 70series, with a decent OC even in the ballpark of 70ti series, but it costs nothing in comparison. I greatly suggest to get one (preferably a version with massive cooling), there won't be anything better for the price @ 1080p or 1440p.

Edit : You'll also need a CPU to support it, or else it can be easily bottlenecked

[darthwiizius]

I'm still using a 2060S, I bought it almost 4 1/2 years ago just before the GPUpocalypse kicked in so I paid retail for it, I was after a 2070S but the shop sold it before I got there and the 2060S was the last card in my town so I bought it. While the purchase initially left me a little deflated I was quite impressed by the uplift from my 1060 6GB and am currently amazed by the longevity of the card, it's still fine for all but a couple of games at 1080P high settings and even a few RT games using DLSS to bring the frames up to 60. The newest F1 games run their RT lite effects quite easily but IMO the F1 games need to be locked at 120FPS to make the physics switch on properly, most race games are fine at 60 but the F1 games feel a bit off and skittish at 60FPS.

[Twitch_Addysnn]

I’ve got a 2080 Super and I’m extremely impressed. A noticeable 10-25% in game performance upgrade from my 1080ti in 1080p!

The Turing streaming encoder has also been amazing to me and my twitch audience.

[ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

As a 3060Ti owner, I gotta say the 20 series has aged VERY well and it's almost purely thanks to the Turing architecture and DLSS upscaling. As of writing DLSS 3.7 looks leagues better than DLSS 1 ever did in 2018/2019. I'd even go so far as to say the RTX 20 series is, and will, age better than the 10 series ever did. As much as I hate DLSS 3 Frame Generation, Super Resolution & Ray Reconstruction are a blessing. The RTX 20 series aged like a vintage Italian wine. I am slightly disappointed by your testing though, most people customize their settings and do not use presets. It would be helpful to see customized optimized settings to squeeze every frame out of your GPU.

[eugane]

bought this card for 130$ and actually happy with it. CS2 260+fps that is more than enough

[TheGentileGabe]

I had one until a few months ago, well the TI version. I would usually get at the least 82-90 fps at 4k on single player games with maxed settings. Great card.

[guyharris]

I got the r9 290x for dx 12 when it launched and then got rtx 2080ti for dx ult in 2018. Figure i keep em till new dx versions appear.

[AlexHusTech]

I have the Fifine AM8 decent dynamic mic for the price.

Not bad for a free upgrade!

[KenOath]

Is the 2080s a good pair with ryzen 5 7600x?

[mr.savage]

This card is great if you don't mind lowering textures and don't necessarily need to play latest graphic demanding games. For example if you play metro exodus enhanced edition with rtx on and Very high setting, you will still get a really good experience.

[MeepMeepMwo]

Rtx2080. Basically a 1080ti with less vram but able to use dlss.

[NeoAstrisk]

I cried today. My 2080 just 43d me today. Got a 4070 to make myself feel better tho.

[yahyasajid]

I've had a 2080, 2080S and 2080TI

Imo 2080TI is definitely worth the push in budget if you can get them for £230, decent bit faster with enough Vram for nearly all applications

[Hi_Im_o]

imo 2070 Super is very slept on it can do 4k and rt with some dlss 2080 is underrated cause 3070 exists its basically the same

[Jrring]

my only issue with them is when I was looking (a couple months ago) people were still looking for 500 for em :/

[Aurcas]

I got Asus Dual nVidia GeForce RTX 2080 8GB with 3900xt 16gb 3200mghz

[revengex]

I have a 2080 extreme wb with 9900kf watercooled, i am very happy, performance is very top

[RandomnessCreates]

Can you review the 2080ti with the 22GB mod they're selling for AI usage? I'd love to see performance in games for those mod cards